I AM the older demographic and this is not the only such study. You're
on loose ground with your hypotheses.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>> And for us old farts there's plenty of data that says from about the mid
>> sixties on up the higher your cholesterol the longer you live. Yes, you
>> heard me right. See, for example;
>> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11502313>
>>
>
>
> Ok, I don't play a doctor on TV, but something about this study seems amiss.
> First of all, the study appears to limit itself to an older demographic.
> These are people who have survived middle-age heart-disease which is
> probably (again, I ain't no doctor) more influenced by high cholesterol
> levels. So, the basic premise is that these are individuals who are less
> likely to die from high-cholesterol than the general world population.
>
> Secondly, if I understand the demographics of the participants, they are of
> a given genetic branch which has different physiological makeup than those
> of European or African descent. For example, I wouldn't take a cholesterol
> study based on Eskimos and apply the conclusions to peoples of the Asian
> Sub-continent. Five servings of whale meat and blubber would probably kill
> half the world's population outright.
>
> AG
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